Capital City is under attack! Tiny Epic Defenders of the realm assemble! Yes, Tiny Epic Defenders is a new tower defense game from Gamelyn Games out this weekend. In the game, players will work together to defend Capital City from attack by multiple hordes. These vile villains are encroaching from surrounding towns and must be stopped before they overrun those hamlets on their way to the main city. Study their patterns, strategize, and collect artifacts to help you fight them off!

The popular group storytelling/roleplaying-light board game, T.I.M.E. Stories, adds another expansion pack this weekend. A Prophecy of Dragons includes another ninety minute session for players to incorporate into the base game. In A Prophecy of Dragons, the time traveling adventures of the game that you control will actually be jumping dimensions, moving to a parallel universe where the middle ages were overrun with magic users. The world you encounter is drastically different from the one described in our history books.

Last week we had My Happy Farm. This week, we narrow that down to just Happy Pigs. A buying and selling family game, Happy Pigs is quick-to-learn and easy-to-play for ages ten and up. Players compete to purchase, raise, and sell their porcine livestock. Use funds to purchase baby pigs at the beginning of the game, feed them into adulthood, get them to reproduce, then sell the top choice piggies. Outside of the cutely designed pig tokens used in the game, Happy Pigs also has a special two player variant those farming inclined couples. And if pigs aren’t your bag, don’t worry because, for a limited time, each purchase comes with a special Penguins expansion.

Farming must be the theme for tonight, because La Granja is our next highlighted game. From Stronghold Games, La Granja finds players operating farms across the lake from the Spanish village of Esporles. Over six rounds, will maintain and grow their farm, hiring workers and adding new fields in order to grow produce that will be sold back to the residents of Esporles for a profit. Keep a close eye on the strategies of other players, however, as turn order can be effected by dice rolls in order to change the direction of the game.

Everyone loves a new Smash Up expansion, but, in this case, everyone actually contributed to a new Smash Up expansion. AEG put out a call for factions that fans would like to see incorporated into the popular card game, then chose the winners and released them in the It’s Your Fault expansion. If you’ve cruised around the Internet for a few short minutes, you might be able to guess the winners that ended up in this expansion. The four new factions include Sharks, Superheroes, Greek Myths, and Dragons!

Fantasy Flight is getting in deep with the family. A spin on the classic Mafia card game, Mafia: Vendetta is a deception game in the vein of Bang! and Ultimate Werewolf. However, in Mafia: Vendetta, players are attempting to weed out the mobbed up individuals within the group. Over the rounds, players will pose accusations in an effort to uncover the covert culprits, but players will also be eliminated, slowly parring down the number of players.

Adding cards twenty-one to forty of the Westeros cycle, The Road to Winterfell is a chapter pack of sixty new cards for the A Game of Thrones LCG. These cards are meant to augment existing decks and add variety to the base game and expansions from the series.

Much like Smash Up’s Big Geeky Box, Pixel Tactics Deluxe simultaneously acts as an expansion, a base game, and a container for your cards. In addition to a complete set of never-before seen heroes, Pixel Tactics Deluxe gives you a large storage box to keep your whole collection in one, a bonus minipak expansion, and a big rulebook that introduces new play modes, including Large-Group League Play. Deluxe is also fully playable on its own, but combining multiple Pixel Tactics games together gives you a ton of new ways to play.

Another in the popular The End of the World RPG series, Alien Invasion drops this weekend. Like the other apocalypse scenarios, Alien Invasion has players actually playing themselves in the campaign, with the stats to reflect their own (so you might want to start training now). Outside of the instructions for the rule system, this hardcover volume also includes character creation rules and five different scenarios that homage various alien invasion plots (such as giant insects, alien infiltration, and the class flying saucers).

Everyone knows that the bad guys have all the fun in comic books, so Sentinels of the Multiverse is giving players a chance to experience what it’s like to be villainous. Villains of the Multiverse is a mega expansion for the game, using the villain team gameplay mechanics introduced in Sentinels of the Multiverse: Vengeance to group villains together as a team fighting against a hero team. Ten new villains are included, which can be faced in any configuration, as well as four new environments.

Much like Magic the Gathering, a new Pokemon set is always a moment for celebration if you’re an avid CCG player. Pokemon Breakpoint is the newest set, including 120 cards that expand on the storyline regarding the rift between worlds. In addition to the regular booster pack release, there is also a Elite Training Box for the set that includes eight booster packs, card sleeves, dice, tokens, and a card box with dividers.

Somewhere between Quarriors and a resource management game, King’s Forge is a fantasy-based dice game for two to four players. In the game, players will collect and utilize various different dice to build items or trade for better dice. In order to do this, players will traverse nineteen realms, each with their own dice opportunities, and decide whether to keep their dice or construct one of thirty-two different creations. And if that sounds slightly disorganized, don’t worry, because this edition also comes with a game board to help organize everything.

Cats are big business in the gaming world right now, so IDW has jumped on the bandwagon with Cat Tower. This dexterity game is not only extremely cute, but also an excellent party game. For two to six players, Cat Tower involves the stacking of foldable cat cards, much like a furry Jenga. The order and position of the cats is decided by the roll of a die, but do be careful rolling that die, because each fallen cat goes directly into the guilty player’s deck. The more you have, the less points you gain.

You have failed your city. . .if you don’t pick up the new Arrow Crossover Pack for the DC Deck Building Game. Included within this cost effective expansion are five new playable characters, including Roy Harper, John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, Sara Lance, and Oliver Queen, himself! As well, a new super villain, equipment, hero, villain, location, and super power cards are also included.

Like Love Letter but more mathematical, the Land of Ooo comes to the popular card game in Adventure Time Love Letter! In place of the traditional princess is Princess Bubblegum with a slew of valiant suitors vying for her affections. As well, instead of traditional tokens, this version of the game comes with rubies of affection. Oh, and the whole thing comes in a Jake shaped bag!

Journey to the Lonely Mountain for a showdown with the mighty dragon, Smaug in the Desolation of Smaug expansion pack! Along the way face giant spiders, malicious elves, suspicious humans, and the most epic barrel-ride ever! Play as Bard the Bowman, Legolas Greenleaf, Tauriel, among other popular characters. These contents are intended to be added to The Hobbit Deck Building Game.

The dark, morose world of Gloom blends together with the happy-go-lucky dungeon crawling world of Munchkin in Munchkin Gloom. This new base set contains one hundred and ten additional cards, all of which are completely transparent like the cards from Gloom. As well, the card stacking mechanic from Gloom has been added to the regular mechanics of Munchkin.

The Strange Remnants expansion for Eldritch Horror features a new Ancient One, and new encounters, adventure cards, and prelude cards to be added to the base game. Four more investigators enter the game, along with artifacts, assets, spells, and unique assets to aid them in their struggle to save the world.

Munchkin mates with another popular card with the new Smash Up Munchkin edition. This base game (or expansion, depending on your fancy) contains the factions Orcs, Warriors, Halflings, Clerics, Dwarves, Elves, Thieves, and Mages. There are also two brand new card types, monsters and treasures; one threatens players from the bases while the other reward you.

Time is running out for the Marvel Universe. Secret Wars is upon the Legendary Deck Building Game. In volume one of a two part expansion, players will use their favorite characters from the Marvel Universe before it comes to an end. For the first time, play as Black Panther, Dr. Strange, and Thanos! This 350 card set includes new heroes, villains, and schemes.

Like that extra cybernetic eye you had installed last week, the Shadowrun Crossfire Character Expansion Pack 1 extends the usability of the Shadowrun Crossfire Deck Building Game. Included in this reasonably priced expansion pack are twenty entirely new runner cards, four basic cards, and one hundred (you read that right!) upgrade stickers.

If you thought Love Letter had a lot of variations before, then you’ll be shocked to find out another one has hit the shelves. Love Letter The Hobbit overlays the world of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth onto the mechanics of this incredibly popular card game. However, this version of Love Letter provides a twist on the previous versions as players struggle to locate the Arkenstone before Smaug catches on.

Dungeon and Dragons miniatures have not been prevalent after the dissolution of fourth edition, but Wizards of the Coast and Gale Force Nine are changing that this weekend. The D&D Collector’s Series of miniatures is an extremely limited edition set of unpainted miniature figures to be used in the roleplaying game. In the initial line are an Eye Tyrant Beholder, Lolth Demon Queen of Spiders, a Illithid Raiding Party, and Drow War Party.

Another mini expansion for the popular Marvel Deck Building Game, Legendary, is out this weekend. Legendary Fear Itself incorporates characters from the comic event of the same name, each of which is empowered by an Asgardian hammer akin to Thor‘s Mjolnir. Included in the expansion are one hundred playable cards, six allies, one commander (Uru-Enchanted Iron Man), one adversary group, and three new plots.

The violent tricksters of Warhammer 40K receive their own hardcover codex this weekend. The awaited Harlequin Codex has arrived, including in its glossy pages a detailed history of the faction, a gallery of paint schemes and miniature options, a comprehensive army list, and an appendix full of rules for fielding the armies of the Harlequin faction.

Wizards of the Coast and Asmodee have joined forces to produce the newest version of Dice Masters on the market. Battle for Faerun is a Dungeon and Dragons themed version of Dice Masters where sets of dice represent characters and creatures from the popular roleplaying game. Working like a deck building game but with dice, players assemble teams by purchasing assortments dice. Out this weekend is a two player starter set and the standard booster pack assortment.

Objectively the most amazing expansion pack for the Smash Up card game to date, Pretty Pretty Smash Up is out this weekend. Basically, the grungy, spooky, monstrous factions have had their day in Smash Up and now it’s time for some cute and cuddly options. Included within this box are four entirely new factions, including Kitty Cats (featuring some familiar furry faces from the Internet), Princesses, Fairies, and, for all the Bronies out there, Mythic Horses. All your vampires, pirates, and Cthulhus don’t stand a chance!

Dave Matthews must have just been hired on as a game designer at Fantasy Flight, because the newest Netrunner LCG Data Pack is named The Spaces Between. The second expansion in the Lunar Cycle, The Spaces Between lives up to its name by exploring the limbo status of used up events and operations. What after effects do these cards have once they are discarded?

Doesn’t matter what class you play in the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Paizo has you covered.

This weekend, the publisher is unleashing Class Decks for seven different class types, with each being capable of incorporation into the base Adventure Card Game. The seven class types presented are the Bard, Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, and Wizard. Each deck contains 109 cards that apply to four different archetypes for each class and spells, allies, and weapons to be used with any of them.

Also out for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game this weekend are the first two card expansions for the Skull and Shackles adventure path. First up, the Character Add-On Deck, like with the base game, supplies three entirely new class types, including Witch, Alchemist, and Warpriest, as well as the cards to expand the game up to six players. Raiders of the Fever Sea is the second expansion, containing 110 cards that introduce five scenarios that progress the adventure, as well as adding loot, monster, location, villain, and ship cards.

While zombie-based content my vary from television to film to comics to board games, there is only one consistent option when you face them down: Run, Fight, or Die. This new board game changes up the growing subgenre of zombie survival board games by pitting each player (1-4) against their own undead horde. Players race around a special game board attempting to collect supplies and survivors while not being bitten or letting too many followers become zombified. Those who outlast the rest with the most life survive to fight another day, while those who don’t shamble away into the darkness.

The pun is so obvious it was only a matter of time before AEG released a Smash Up expansion that used it.

Monster Smash (yup, like monster mash) is the newest expansion for the popular card game where players blend together all sorts of different creatures and character types to form one absurd deck. Included in the expansion are four original factions, each with a movie monster theme to them. The four are Werewolves, Vampires, Mad Scientists, and, of course, Giant Ants. Monster Smash can be played as either a two player game or a four player game, if incorporated into the base Smash Up game.

Many Bothans died to bring you the Rebel AcesStar Wars X-Wing expansion.

Like the Imperial Aces expansion, this set comes with two ship miniatures, an alternate paint job A-Wing and B-Wing, along with four original pilot characters and all the standard maneuver cards, tokens, and upgrade cards. In addition, the set comes with a special mission suited to the skills of both ships.

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